Dr. Mercola on Heart Disease Prevention

     Another interesting article from Dr. Mercola refutes some of the common recommendations for heart disease.  You can read it here.

The following excerpt from the article lists his suggestions for a heart-healthy diet.

What Constitutes a Heart-Healthy Diet?

If you're still confused about what a "proper diet" is, I suggest reviewing my Optimized Nutrition Plan, which is designed to guide you through the dietary changes in a step-by-step fashion, moving from beginners to intermediary to advanced. When properly applied, it can improve just about anyone's health. Following is a summary of the basic recommendations, all of which will help combat chronic inflammation:

Limit or eliminate all processed foods

Eliminate all gluten, and highly allergenic foods from your diet

Eat organic foods whenever possible to avoid exposure to harmful agricultural chemicals such as glyphosate

Eat at least one-third of your food uncooked (raw), or as much as you can manage

Increase the amount of fresh vegetables in your diet

Avoid artificial sweeteners of all kinds

Swap all trans fats (vegetable oils, margarine etc) for healthful fats like avocado, raw butter or coconut oil

To re-balance your omega-3 to omega-6 ratio, take a high-quality omega-3 supplement, such as krill oil, and reduce your consumption of processed omega-6 fats from vegetable oils (trans fats)

Drink plenty of pure water

Optimize your vitamin D levels, either through appropriate sun exposure, a safe tanning bed, or as last resort an oral vitamin D3 supplement

Limit fructose to less than 25 grams per day, from all sources, including whole fruits. If you have insulin resistance, diabetes, hypertension or heart disease, you'd be well advised to keep your fructose below 15 grams per day

Beware: Heart Disease May be an Outcome of Cholesterol- and Vitamin D Deficiency

One of the most common dietary misconceptions is the notion that animal foods are bad for your heart because they contain cholesterol. Conventional medicine tells you that heart disease is due to elevated cholesterol and recommends lowering cholesterol levels as much as possible, including in your diet.

Compelling research by Dr. Stephanie Seneff (the same researcher who recently published a groundbreaking study on the harmful impact of glyphosate on human health) suggests the converse may be far closer to the truth. She believes heart disease is due to getting too little cholesterol, opposed to getting too much.

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